Carrier route record

YXMCO→MIA

Republic Airways · Orlando to Miami

Flights: 234
Period: July 2025 to June 2026
Share of route: 6%
Carriers: 3

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with Republic Airways.

Republic on MCO to MIA lands a B+, about a point better than the national rate of 77.6%. About one flight in five arrives 15 minutes late or worse, and those flights are late by about an hour on average. That is a workable record, not a spotless one. That rests on 234 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, American Airlines, flew 2,991 at 74.8% on time.

The US average over the same twelve months is 77.6%, so there is little to separate Republic on MCO to MIA from the country as a whole. The variation that matters here is internal: which carrier, and what time of day.

On time

79.0%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 233 completed flights

Avg delay

55 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.00%

National rate is 1.81%

Whole route

74.0%

Every carrier on MCO to MIA, 3,804 flights

These figures cover 234 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 5 minutes early, which is the part an average hides: most flights here are fine, and the on-time rate is decided by a tail of badly late ones. On-time means under 15 minutes late, the DOT's own threshold.

Carrier by carrier

Republic against every carrier on MCO to MIA

Republic flew 234 of the 3,804 flights on MCO to MIA, about 6% of it. Its 79.0% on time is 5 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 74.0%. Ranked by on-time rate it is first of three carriers on the route, where the range runs from Republic at 79.0% to Southwest at 68.3%.

The choice of carrier is not cosmetic here. American Airlines arrives on time 74.8% of the time; Southwest Airlines manages 68.3%. Sample sizes sit next to every figure, because a two-point gap across 579 flights means less than a ten-point one.

On-time performance by carrier on MCO to MIA
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
Republic Airways (this page)thin sample	234	79.0%	55 min	0.00%	B+
American Airlines	2,991	74.8%	81 min	1.14%	C
Southwest Airlines	579	68.3%	55 min	0.86%	C+

American leads Southwest by 7 points. Real, but small enough that a better departure time on the weaker carrier can outweigh it.

Departure window

When Republic runs best on this route

Departure time matters more here than the choice of carrier. The gap between the best and worst window is 23 points, against 7 points between the best and worst carrier. Each bar is the on-time rate for flights scheduled inside that window.

5am–8am117 flights90.5%
8am–11am—
11am–2pm—
2pm–5pm—
5pm–8pm117 flights67.5%
8pm–5am—

Scale runs 60% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

Book the early departure. Flights leaving between 5am–8am arrive on time 90.5% of the time, against 67.5% for the evening window. That is 23 points of difference for no extra money, and it comes from the same aircraft having had no earlier flight to fall behind on. The 5am–8am window is the busiest, with 117 flights scheduled in it.

Across the year

Republic on MCO to MIA through the year

Jul–Sep 2025184 flights76.5%
Oct–Dec 202550 flights88.0%

Scale runs 70% to 95%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

Monthly volumes are too low here to break the year into twelve reliable readings. What the twelve-month total says is 79.0% on time across 234 flights.

Split by quarter, Republic on MCO to MIA logged 184 flights in Jul–Sep 2025 and 50 flights in Oct–Dec 2025. Fewer than three of those quarters carried the 30 completed flights this site needs before printing a rate, so the 79.0% annual figure is the one to use.

Across the week, Tuesday is the strongest day at 85.3% on time and Wednesday the weakest at 72.7%. 13 points is a smaller lever than departure hour, but it is free.

Delay causes

Why Republic runs late on this route

Carriers report a reason for every delay minute they cause, in five DOT categories. The split below is by minutes, not by number of flights, so a handful of very long weather delays weighs as much as many short ones. It covers 2,707 reported delay minutes.

National Airspace System
40%
Extreme weather
28%
Carrier
26%
Late-arriving aircraft
5%

Extreme weather accounts for 28% of delay minutes, well above the single-digit share typical across the system. Weather delays are lumpy: they arrive as whole bad days rather than as a steady drag, so the monthly strip above is the more useful view of the risk. The national share is 6%, so this operation carries roughly 4.5 times the usual weather exposure. The split is drawn from 2,707 reported delay minutes.

40% of delay minutes are charged to the National Airspace System: air traffic volume, runway configuration, ground stops. No carrier can price its way out of that, which is why airport choice moves the number here more than carrier choice does. That is 1,093 minutes out of 2,707, against a national NAS share of 21%.

Cancellations are rare at 0.00%, below the national 1.81% and low enough to earn the plus on the grade. Almost no flights are called off; the risk here is arriving late, not not arriving.

Connections and stage length

What a delay here costs

5.2% of arrivals land an hour or more late, close to the national 8.1%. That is the figure that decides a connection, and it says a 60 to 75 minute layover is reasonable here while anything under 45 minutes is a bet. Most delays on this route last about an hour, which a normal layover absorbs.

At 192 miles this is a short hop, and stage length matters more than it looks. A flight this short spends under two hours in the air, which leaves almost nothing to claw back a late pushback with. Delay here is decided on the ground, in the turn, which is why the 5am–8am window matters as much as it does.

The return leg is a different operation and performs like one: it runs 74.8% on time across 234 flights, 4 points below this direction. Departure banks, aircraft rotations and the congestion at each end all differ, so scoring the two directions together would average away a real 4 points of difference.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 234 flights over twelve months is enough to clear this site's floor but not enough to pin the rate down tightly, and a single bad week moves it by more than a point. Treat the grade as a rough reading.

What to do with this

Booking Republic on MCO to MIA

Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 234 flights over twelve months is enough to clear this site's floor and not enough to be confident to better than a couple of points. The 79.0% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 233 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.

Where to go next

Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics, on-time performance data, July 2025 to June 2026. Last updated 15 September 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.

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